The Outlook Scheduling Assistant is a quick and easy way to schedule appointments with multiple participants.

When you create a meeting in Outlook and add participants, the Scheduling Assistant allows you to view those participants' schedules in order to find a time when everyone is available. This reduces the amount of time going back and forth with team members trying to nail down a meeting time.

Blackboard and other campus technologies offer a number of tools that can enhance learning, but not all of them will be the right fit for your course. One framework that can help us make technology choices based on effective teaching strategies is David Merrill's First Principles of Instruction. In Merrill's synthesis of instructional research, the following (likely familiar) ideas emerged:

Problem-centered focus: Learning is supported when students are involved in solving real...